Mario Romero has built something very interesting that’s getting more interesting all the time.
If I weren’t on Facebook and didn’t have his Google Reader application plugged into Facebook I would totally have missed it.
If you come and visit my Facebook Profile page (which is what we call a home page in Facebook land) you’ll see that I have a Google Reader component on that page with the latest headlines from my link blog. That’s Mario’s code that’s doing that.
But if you just stopped there you’d be missing what Mario just turned on.
Add that component to your own Facebook Profile and hook it up to YOUR OWN Google Reader shared page (I call it a link blog, but Google calls them “Shared Items.”).
If you do, you’ll see a page that lets you see your shared items, your friends’ shared items, and top shared items.
Wait a second, top shared items?
Yeah! But only from other Facebookers. It shows you top items for the past 12 hours, or 24 hours, or 48 hours, or the past week. And it shows how many times each item was shared.
This is the beginning of something really killer. It’s something I wanted Google to do — Google could put out a Digg-style killer that’d be a lot harder to game. Admittedly this isn’t to the level of a Digg killer yet, but it is gathering steam at a very rapid pace. There’s a lot of smart people using Google Reader — Eric Auchard at Reuters is on the list, for instance. That’ll lead to a lot better news than Digg picks on an average day.
It’s not finished, yet. I wish he’d let me click on the results and see WHO linked to each item. But this has already brought me some new blogs I didn’t know about.
The “Your Friend’s Shared Items” is already becoming a great directory of other people’s Google Reader’s Shared Items. More than 220 of my almost 3,000 friends already have added Mario’s Facebook application to their profile. Imagine the data if everyone started doing a shared feed from Google Reader and added Mario’s app to their profile!
Anyway, I’m already in love with this app, developed in Mexico by Mario. It demonstrates that a new kind of app is possible when you mix RSS into Facebook’s platform. Thanks! Oh, and it works and hasn’t failed since I added it a couple of weeks ago. Can’t wait to see what Mario does next.
Hey, Roi Carthy, do you get the power of “we are media” yet? This is just the tip of the iceberg that’s coming at us.
UPDATE: Mario just sent me a message on Facebook and said that even more features are coming in the next day or two.
Dude, now they added the words “As seen on Scobleizer…” to the widget profile. Your dinner with Matt should be really nice. Maybe he should take you to French Laundry…. periodically:).
@Herb: That is an awesome idea! I’ll look into it.
@Herb: That is an awesome idea! I’ll look into it.
[...] This makes it the Swiss Army Knife of social networking websites, since there is so much that you can do with the platform. You can integrate Facebook with a whole lot of other services such as your own WordPress blog (my own blog posts get reproduced on my Facebook profile via the RSS feed) or even Wikipedia if you are that way inclined. A particularly useful application that has recently been launched is Google Reader Shared Items, which allows you to share interesting items in your RSS feeds with your friends very easily. Scoble loves it. [...]
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Robert, thanks for the tip on the app – I had it installed, but didn’t look any further than the base functionality.
Robert, thanks for the tip on the app – I had it installed, but didn’t look any further than the base functionality.
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I somehow doubt that people would migrate from digg. The sheer number of trolls there shows that.
I somehow doubt that people would migrate from digg. The sheer number of trolls there shows that.
Any chance this could be modified to allow tagging and sorting/displaying by top posts for a particular tag? That would make it much more useful.
Any chance this could be modified to allow tagging and sorting/displaying by top posts for a particular tag? That would make it much more useful.
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Google Reader for your cell phone.
Asterbox.com announces the beta release of their Java mobile platform. They have openly declared what many users have felt: surfing the web on a mobile device is a disappointing experience. Their claims that the internet on the phone is dead, but can live on through web services have been embodied in the Asterbox mobile platform. The Java-based platform utilizes web APIs to deliver content and interactivity to end users in a new and innovative way. The software currently provides access to the Google Reader service, but more functionality is in the works.
Google Reader for your cell phone.
Asterbox.com announces the beta release of their Java mobile platform. They have openly declared what many users have felt: surfing the web on a mobile device is a disappointing experience. Their claims that the internet on the phone is dead, but can live on through web services have been embodied in the Asterbox mobile platform. The Java-based platform utilizes web APIs to deliver content and interactivity to end users in a new and innovative way. The software currently provides access to the Google Reader service, but more functionality is in the works.
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I don’t think anything will kill digg, perhaps sites like http://www.thatsprofound.com will pop up every now and again. But I seriously doubt any will pose a serious threat.
I don’t think anything will kill digg, perhaps sites like http://www.thatsprofound.com will pop up every now and again. But I seriously doubt any will pose a serious threat.
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I think so too
I think so too
Aha!
i hope so soon
golly…
golly…